Nagisa OSHIMA 大島渚
Band Of Ninja
忍者武芸帳
Nippon Animation ³
This year's Japan Visualmedia Translation Academy (JVTA) Special Screening features an amazing cinematic experience. In BAND OF NINJA, Nagisa OSHIMA transformed a manga classic into a “motion comic” by his groundbreaking technique of montage and sound editing. Panel by panel, Sanpei SHIRATO's drawings come to life and take us to the world of legendary ninja Kagemaru.
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Band Of Ninja (NC 2014)
忍者武芸帳
Ninja bugeicho
Japan 1967
123 minutes
Director
Nagisa OSHIMA
Script
Nagisa OSHIMA, Mamoru SASAKI
Cinematography
Akira TAKADA
Music
Hikaru HAYASHI
Production
Sozosha
World sales
Oshima Productions
Voice acting
Shoichi OZAWA, Kei YAMAMOTO, Akiko KOYAMA, Kei SATO, Noriko MATSUMOTO
About Nagisa OSHIMA
大島渚
Nagisa OSHIMA (1932 – 2013) studied political history at the University of Kyoto. He then became a film critic and later editor-in-chief of a film magazine, before learning his craft as an assistant director at Shochiku Studios. With his own production company Sozosha, he created pioneering films in the field of Japanese New Wave cinema, making his international breakthrough with IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES (AI NO CORRIDA) in 1976.